Hear from ‘America’s No. 1 Enemy of Fake News’ at Queens University of Charlotte

Meet the editor of an organization billed as “America’s No. 1 Enemy of Fake News” at a Queens University of Charlotte talk on Tuesday.

Angie Drobnic Holan is editor of Politifact, a leading worldwide fact-checking organization.

During her 6 p.m. lecture in Ketner Auditorium, Holan will explain how her organization squelches fake news through a new partnership with Facebook.

In its first year, that partnership ferreted out 1,722 fake news stories from Facebook news feeds, an average of nearly five articles a day. Included were false reports after the Las Vegas shooting, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the special Senate election in Alabama.